Starting soon, the matchups will begin appearing - probably first on the Regalia site but soon after here in the forums as well. For now, though, here are your brackets. Each bracket has 1/4 of the field, seeded from 1-16 in terms of how powerful the community was in nominating each track. These first round matchups will naturally lead into later rounds as the winners move on and the losers lament their fates.

If you listen closely, you can hear me crying over the "Terra's Theme" and "Dust to Dust" matchup...and they're not good tears.

Yeah, when I laid out the brackets, I was personally very displeased over that one too.

I'm glad people understand my pain! I think that it's pretty clear which way I'm going to vote, heh. But still, a really tight matchup as both are incredibly stunning tracks, not to mention important to their respective games.

*steels self*I don't care.I'm going to defiantly vote for the FF3 boss battle theme when the time comes.

More relevantly: how long will will these first-round matchup threads be open? I don't think I have time tonight to do all of them...

Each group of four matchups is scheduled to run for four days, with a new group of four opening each day (in the early morning for us Americans, around lunch for our European friends). The first set will be closing out tomorrow, November 11.

Worth noting that I kind of scheduled them in a dumb way that won't allow a perfectly smooth transition into round 2, I don't think, so there may be a day or two where no new matchups get added while I reconcile that. I haven't thought that all the way through to plot it out yet, as I've been so busy I barely got this part started at all!

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 10th November 2017 12:48

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

The very first set of matchups closed this morning, with Cape Caem, You Can Hear the Cry of the Planet, Fight 2, and Aerith's Theme moving on. Vote totals were a little lower than I would have liked to have seen - what would people think about adding in another day to think and vote for matchups starting in the second round?

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

I kept forgetting to mention, but when I sent in my 5 picks before the tournament I think my internet connection crapped out and sent it twice. When I would go back to the Regalia page it would show up as doubles. Is that an issue?

As you can see, I didn't open up any new matches this morning even though round 2 now has eight matches that can kick off. That's mainly because I've been too busy at work and caught a fairly nasty cold, both of which stopped me from getting round 2 ready.

I'll be able to start some up tomorrow, and we'll let them run a little longer like I mentioned before.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Does the fact that the matchups are on the Regalia site mean that non-members can vote?

Only members can vote - the site is just there to be a prettier way of doing it, and to make it easy for people who want to participate but not necessarily come to the forums be a part of it.

Also, with regards to the "latest post" thing, that is somewhat remedied if you go to the CoN homepage before coming to the forums - at least there you get the number only of new posts, even if you have to dig a little bit more. I intentionally turned on that feature for this forum, but if it's really irritating to people to see bumps via votes, I can turn it off, too.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Sorry for anyone who came to the forums yesterday to do voting - I was ill and completely forgot that I needed to move stuff around. Remember that the main site, https://regalia.cavesofnarshe.com/ should work even in the case that I forget to do all the manual work here. Should be plenty of time to vote, though!

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

That will seal up round two, and now only sixteen songs remain of the original 64. The round of 16 should have some pretty interesting matchups, and I think I'll start them up probably on Monday morning once I have time to get them written up and organized.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

I'm a bit stunned that at least two tracks I cast votes for in the previous round won by a margin of one. Also thought Dancing Mad would cruise to the top, that anything in the field could challenge it I find an interesting twist.

I'm a bit stunned that at least two tracks I cast votes for in the previous round won by a margin of one. Also thought Dancing Mad would cruise to the top, that anything in the field could challenge it I find an interesting twist.

I think we're suffering a bit because of lower voter turnout relative to last time. What is this, a midterm election?

Round of 16 has now started up with two matchups. Planning on starting two a day for the next few days.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Double post just for fun - after this round is over, I think I might need to move all the songs into a new bracket so we can have enough bracket space to get the top five locked in over the next couple weeks, so be on the lookout for that.

And, if anyone is curious, here's how the remaining sixteen songs break down by game:

I find it kooky that the every time a CT track has gone up against one from a different game, it has won. FFT has a similarly distinguished performance but since there's only one FFT track, it doesn't stand out as much.

On the other end, FF1 and 5 got stomped (among games with more than one song in) and FF4, while being a favorite in the nominations with 7 entries, has only one win to show for it.

There's a joke here about FF4 being older than most JRPG characters but I feel it would be in poor taste to snark about it here.

We've got the final eight now. There are three Chrono Trigger tracks, two FF6, and one from FF8, 10, and Tactics respectively. Very, very strange group.

I'm setting up the brackets now; unfortunately, Challonge doesn't make it easy to do a double-elimination bracket in the way we need it to get our top five, so I'll have some finagling to do to get everything looking right. I'll get the Elite Eight round running probably by tomorrow morning!

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Good question - I neglected to mention that. These matchups close on the 12th early in the morning (8am Eastern), and I'm going to try to have the losers' bracket start up pretty quickly after that because they will feed the fifth-place song that we need to find the prize winners among those who made predictions.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

I finally got a chance to get the brackets all updated on both the Regalia site and at the top of this thread. As of this morning, we're running the first matches of the fifth place bracket, a single elimination bracket to determine what song finishes fifth (it will run through 17 December); tomorrow morning the Final Four matchups will begin and run through 18 December to determine the third-place match and the grand finale.

I'm not sure yet how we'll run matches over the Christmas holiday, though I suspect we'll just extend the open windows a bit, and we'll work to have our prize winners by the New Year.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly